Top 5 Political Highlights - 2016

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5) Brexit

June 2016, the UK shocked the European Union and the global community with the announcement of exiting from the EU in accordance with a referendum held by the country.Invoking article 50 of the “Treaty on European Union”. Can the UK maintain its strong ties with the European countries after Brexit and see an economic turnaround subsequently?

4) Donald Trump

​A man who stood up in the US elections and gained support on the points of “Islamophobia”, ”kicking out Illegal immigrants” and to “build a wall to keep out the Mexicans” will take office in January 2017 as the new president of the USA. Upon his unexpected election as president there were protests against him and mass hysteria. Will trump’s policies be in accordance with what he promised? Will the US maintain its global balance of power?

3) Aleppo Crisis

​The civil war started in 2013 has come to see possibly, its worst year yet. With many of the important cities plagued by Death, destruction and violation of humanitarian laws. Cities like Aleppo have seen the worst share of this war this year and generally the whole of Syria experiencing a migration crisis of more than 2 million Syrians in outflow as of date, deaths towering 100,000 since its inception and many historical sites and cities reduced to rubble, is an end to this war inevitable? Or is there room for more destruction?